WHAT DOES AN INSTRUCTOR DO?

Published: Sep 22, 2025 - The Instructor administers sedation and pain medications using intravenous, local, caudal, or spinal methods while supervising patients before, during, and after medical procedures. This role monitors patient conditions, manages anesthesiological services, coordinates with healthcare professionals, and ensures airway management and life support during emergencies. The instructor also educates patients and families on post-procedure care, potential complications, and methods to prevent disease and improve overall health.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Instructor

1. Instructor Duties

  • Strategic Planning: Facilitate pre-planning discussions with clients to map out, document, and communicate the strategic direction of system usage and staff training.
  • Virtual Training: Conduct virtual training for customers via the internet and/or onsite at a client facility in a classroom setting.
  • Client Instruction: Focus on training clients during the implementation process on the basics needed to effectively use solutions at system activation.
  • Curriculum Delivery: Train clients using a defined curriculum with documented agendas, adjusting to accommodate the client’s needs.
  • Product Knowledge: Keep up to date with new product offerings and changes as they pertain to the insurance industry.
  • Best Practices: Research and share best practices and tips related to Training, Learning and Development, Presentation Skills, and the like.
  • Collaboration Skills: Collaborate with other instructors and curriculum designers to ensure students receive the most accurate and up-to-date training possible.
  • Classroom Management: Review, rehearse, and conduct platform instruction for various-sized classes.
  • Field Training: Deploy and conduct field training in various environments.
  • Student Evaluation: Evaluate student learning through observation and metric-specific testing.
  • Performance Recording: Record students' performance in accordance with client reporting standards.
  • Mentorship Skills: Serve as an instructor, mentor, and evaluator for students.

2. Instructor Details

  • Training Delivery: Provide instruction to include briefing, conducting simulator/training device events, debriefing and conducting a critique of the training event to include completing documentation of performance.
  • Classroom Instruction: Provide academic instruction in the classroom using appropriate lesson plans, approved media and methods of teaching, audiovisual support or electronic computer-based training equipment/media.
  • Diversity Engagement: Reflects the diversity of the community.
  • Innovative Teaching: Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching.
  • Student Support: Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for underrepresented populations.
  • Outdoor Leadership: Co-lead an activity group of up to 13 campers through outdoor adventures.
  • Role Modeling: Serve as a role model and guide campers by exhibiting appropriate behavior, attitudes, and activities.
  • Customer Service: Provide exceptional customer service to parents and all participants in programs.

3. Instructor Responsibilities

  • Technical Content: Develop technical training and information content on existing and future technology solutions.
  • Learning Paths: Establish learning paths and training requirements for technology knowledge and skills required by position within the dealer channel.
  • Training Delivery: Deliver training content to dealers, Deere employees and customers.
  • Market Intelligence: Provide market needs and competitive intelligence to the product marketing team.
  • Solution Evaluation: Evaluate and provide feedback on a new technology solution.
  • Instruction Methods: Employs approved instructional methods and materials to conduct training.
  • Classroom Setup: Sets up classroom facilities, distributes handouts, and conducts classroom exercises.
  • Participant Support: Responds to participant questions.
  • After-Action Reports: Provides after-action reports.
  • Lessons Learned: Capture, document and codify lessons learned.
  • Feedback Analysis: Analyze training event comments, suggestions and feedback and integrate them into subsequent training and deployment phases to increase the effectiveness of training and deployment processes as well as management.

4. Instructor Job Summary

  • Training Delivery: Deliver training to a high standard to achieve course objectives, both practical and theoretical, keeping within the timings of the courses.
  • Course Preparation: Ensuring that course material, equipment, training aids and documentation are available to meet the objectives of all courses.
  • Material Development: Updating and development of course material, including training aids, lesson plans and timetables.
  • Industry Assessment: Carry out industry-recognized training and assessments on trainees in accordance with the scheme rules.
  • Safety Management: Promote and maintain a safe learning environment, ensuring that whilst the delivery of programmes is conducted, high standards of health and safety, confidentiality, safeguarding and equality and diversity are maintained at all times.
  • Documentation Management: Complete and maintain all trainees' course reports, assessment forms, and other relevant documentation, as required by awarding bodies and NCC quality procedures.
  • Role Modeling: Consistently demonstrate CITB behaviours whilst being a role model for students and professionally challenge inappropriate behaviour.
  • Mandatory Training: Complete all mandatory training as prescribed for the role and undertake any additional requirements for plant equipment categories needed to support training courses.
  • Behavior Enforcement: Perform work duties in accordance with the CITB behaviours and challenge inappropriate behaviour of learners not adhering to the college rules.

5. Instructor Accountabilities

  • Medication Administration: Use intravenous, local, caudal or spinal methods to administer sedation or pain medications during surgical and other medical procedures.
  • Patient Monitoring: Supervise patients and monitor their pain medications before, during and after surgery.
  • Complication Management: Offset adverse complications or reactions.
  • Anesthesia Documentation: Record the amount and type of anesthesia as well as the patients' conditions throughout procedures.
  • Risk Assessment: Determine risk during medical procedures by taking medical histories, examining patients and ordering diagnostic procedures like X-rays and laboratory tests.
  • Professional Collaboration: Discuss with other healthcare professionals about the method and type of anesthetic to make patients numb to pain.
  • Airway Management: Provide and sustain airway management and life support during emergency surgery.
  • Post-Surgery Monitoring: Monitor patients post-surgery and determine when they are stabilized enough to move to another room or go home.
  • Service Coordination: Manage anesthesiological services and coordinate with other professionals to formulate procedures and plans.
  • Staff Direction: Direct the duties of medical technicians, nurses and other healthcare support staff.
  • Patient Education: Educate patients and families on post-procedure care and possible complications.
  • Health Instruction: Instruct on different ways to prevent disease and improve health.